CES Senior Instrument Technician
Listed on 2026-10-16
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Systems Engineer
Join us, be part of more. We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities.
Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.
About your team:
At Centrica Energy Storage +, our mission is to store it. Our onshore and offshore teams are united in their goal, to boost the UK’s energy security and drive down bills for customers. Rough, our North Sea storage facility, currently provides half of the UK’s gas storage – enough to heat 2.4 million homes over winter. But we’re not stopping there.
We’ve got our sights set on transforming it into the world's largest hydrogen storage facility and creating a Net Zero connected energy hub in the Humber.
CES Senior Instrument Technician Job Purpose To ensure the continued safe, compliant and reliable operation of Centrica Energy Storage assets through the maintenance, fault finding, testing and improvement of instrumentation, control and safety systems. The role provides technical support to operations and maintenance teams while contributing to asset reliability, process safety and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key ResponsibilitiesInstrumentation Maintenance
- Perform preventative and corrective maintenance on instrumentation and control equipment in accordance with engineering standards and site procedures.
- Maintain transmitters, analysers, control valves, shutdown systems, fire and gas systems and associated field instrumentation.
- Diagnose and rectify instrument and control system faults to minimise plant downtime.
- Undertake inspection, calibration and testing activities to ensure asset integrity and compliance.
- Carry out approved low-complexity modifications on: DCS systems Fire & Gas systems Compressor control systems
- Implement approved alarm setpoint changes in accordance with site management procedures.
- Support software modification activities and system upgrades.
- Provide technical discipline support for operational risk management activities.
- Participate in Management of Change (MoC) reviews and hazard assessments.
- Identify reliability improvement opportunities and support investigation of equipment failures.
- Assist with fault finding, loop tuning and performance optimisation activities.
- Execute work orders generated through the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
- Maintain accurate maintenance records, work evaluations and close-out reports.
- Support the site's work planning and scheduling processes.
- Manage system-related maintenance activities and associated work orders.
- Support the OT Cyber Security Engineer with:
Systems maintenance activities Network maintenance Cyber detection and response activities Manage site engineering and control system laptops. Maintain system backup and recovery arrangements where required. Ensure critical system spares inventories are maintained.
- Deputise for the Lead Instrument/Control Technician when required.
- Supervise specialist vendors and contractors working on control and instrumentation systems.
- Provide technical guidance and support to colleagues and apprentices.
- Promote high standards of safety, compliance and technical excellence.
- Work in accordance with company safety rules, engineering standards and…
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